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Adella Winters has spent her life studying the ocean-but the ocean has been watching her all along.
A brilliant hydrologist, Adella followed the path of her late mother, dedicating her career to understanding the mysteries hidden beneath the world's seas. Yet her own life is filled with unanswered questions. Her mother died when she was only three months old, leaving behind nothing but fragments of a past Adella cannot remember.
When her stepfather, Darien Kane, vanished without explanation when she was seven, Adella was taken in by lighthouse keeper Thomas Curry, a family friend who raised her like his own daughter. Though she grew up surrounded by the sea, Adella never knew the truth about why the ocean always seemed to call to her.
Because Adella Winters is not entirely human.
Unknown to her, her true father is Nuidis Vulko, the legendary Atlantean scholar and advisor to the throne of Atlantis. Born of two worlds, Adella is a rare human-Atlantean hybrid whose latent metahuman abilities remain hidden deep within her blood.
But the ocean remembers its own.
When Adella's research draws the attention of Orm Marius, the formidable former King of Atlantis, her life is pulled into a conflict far greater than she ever imagined. Orm senses something ancient within her-power tied to Atlantis itself.
To the surface world, Orm is a tyrant and a conqueror.
To Adella, he is a man burdened by duty, betrayal, and a kingdom that once demanded everything from him.
As Adella begins to uncover the truth about her heritage, her dormant powers awaken, linking her fate to the tides-and to the king who cannot seem to stay away from her.
Caught between two worlds and two destinies, Adella must decide whether she belongs with the humans who raised her... or the ocean that has always claimed her.
Because the deeper she dives into the truth, the clearer it becomes:
The sea did not create her by accident.
It created her for a king.